Monday, April 30, 2012

This is a quick one sweet friends! I just uploaded May Math and Literacy to our TPT! I think it was just in the nick of time, too!!
WHEEWW! I'm feeling the end of the year crunch! Lots to do to wrap up this awesome year with my sweet kiddos! I LOVED my class this year but....CAN"T WAIT FOR SWEET SUMMERTIME!!!!
Jump on over and check out our TPT! We uploaded a freebie for summer!!!! :)

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Our very popular graduation kids are now newly updated and posted to TPT! We included directions for making them the NEW poem for 2012 and a precious memory book for your kids to practice their writing! The book will surely be a keepsake..add that to the unforgettable graduation kids and you have a priceless memory for your kiddos and their parents! Jump on over and check them out!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

We have been learning all about circus animals and the circus! Mostly we have used ideas we have been doing for years and beefed it up by learning about some additional zoo animals from Deanna Jump's amazing zoo animal unit! We wrapped up our unit with our kindergarten circus! The entire school and all of our kindergarten parents come and watch the circus! Here is our amazing adventure in pictures!

This is our ringmaster I made on our door to graph our favorite circus act!

Our display outside our room....under the big top!

These are circus tents... they painted and drew themselves and wrote about what they would be doing in the circus!

Our funny clowns! They loved designing their own faces!

Word wall on our bathroom door! They used interactive writing to label circus words they would need to use in their writing!

These are fabulous non-fiction books that I found at Barnes and Noble! They have just the right amount of information for kindergarten kiddos! I bought all of the animals!!!

My sweet class right before show time! I'm the silly clown in the back!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I LOVE Stephen Fite! For several years, I have been lucky enough to see him at Splash in Dallas. For the past three years, our kindergarten classes have seen him in concert. We saw him last week and he has a new album!

Monday, April 2, 2012

Just a quick post...thanks to Jack Hartmann and YouTube, my students can count to 100 by ones, fives and tens! When they accomplish this task, I glue a copy of the child's photos to a copy of a $100 bill with a speech bubble that says, "I can count to 100!". Happy Sunday!

Renate and Heather began teaching Pre-K together in 2000. Then, they moved to kindergarten. Renate has three children. She enjoys doing anything creative. Heather has been married 20 years and has two children. She enjoys reading and watching her boys play sports.